Rulers of Sweden
Rulers of Sweden
In the rich portrait gallery we find Edmund the Old, Ragnvald Round Head, Erik the Lisping and Lame, Margareta, Ulrika Eleonora and many more. Rulers of Sweden works equally well as a handy reference book and as pure entertainment. Bengt Liljegren succeeds in painting brief but vivid pen-portraits of the men (and occasional women) who have reigned in Sweden since the Viking Age. In other words, the book opens the door to Swedish history.
Bengt Liljegren, born in 1961, is a lecturer and historian who also works as a critic for the newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet.
He has previously enjoyed great success with two critically acclaimed books about King Charles XII of Sweden, Karl XII i Lund (1999) and Karl XII: En biografi (2000).